Grunt Doc: Can you remember a time when the sight of blood seemed unusual or upsetting? (Not just a picture, not just on TV) I’m asking because I’m not sure I can remember.

I can remember that one of the reasons I decided not to go into surgery was that I always got very hungry during abdominal surgery standing there holding a retractor and watching some person’s internal organs.

Greg,
when I was first doing EMT training, I vivdly recall leaning against a wall with cold sweat running down my back, watching the suturing of a wound about 2 inches long. And it wasn’t even bleeding much. As with all things, experience changed all that.

I must say that surgery never had that peckish effect on me, it just made me bored and sleepy.